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Billy Ireland’s New Yorker Centennial Celebration!
New Yorker Centennial Celebration!
Join us on Saturday, March 1 for a special program celebrating the centennial of The New Yorker magazine and a reception for our new exhibit, See Anyone You Know? The New Yorker Cartoons and Covers of Edward Koren. This event is FREE and open to the public. No registration/tickets required.
Renowned New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake will share stories from their career, and exhibit curator James Sturm and the family of Ed Koren will guide visitors through Koren’s work and legacy.
Dates/Times March 1, 2025 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St. Columbus OH 43210
All for Laughs: The Artists of the Famous Cartoonist Course
Norman Rockwell Museum Exhibit: All for Laughs: The Artists of the Famous Cartoonist Course
What did ‘famous’ cartoonists Al Capp, Whitney Darrow, Barney Tobey, Dick Cavalli, Willard Mullin, Rube Goldberg, and Harry Haenigsen have in common? They were all celebrated visual humorists in the mid-twentieth century and faculty of the Famous Artists Cartoon Course—a popular correspondence course launched in the 1950s that was designed to teach artists to be funny. Original cartoons and instructional drawings from the Norman Rockwell Museum’s extensive Famous Artists School Collection by this cadre of noted artists will explore the wit and wisdom of the Famous Artists Cartoon Course.
Opening Saturday, March 1, 2025. The exhibition, which will run through June 15, 2025.
NY Comics & Picture-Story Symposium – Will Eisner’s The Spirit
Will Eisner’s The Spirit at 85: Reflections on a Milestone
Will Eisner’s pioneering newspaper-insert feature, The Spirit, showcasing the exploits of its iconic lead character, debuted in newspapers across the country on June 1, 1940. The Spirit’s dramatic, tongue-in-cheek stories and daring visual approach inspired generations of cartoonists, readers, and historians. Today, a panel of Eisner experts—including Eisner himself through observations he made over the years—showcase their favorite Spirit stories and discuss what makes them outstanding. Panelists include Denis Kitchen (Eisner’s publisher), Paul Levitz (author of Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), Susan Kirtley (Portland State University), and moderator Danny Fingeroth (Chair of Will Eisner Week).
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 7 pm EST. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – Remembering Jules Feiffer
Remembering Great Comic Book* Hero Jules Feiffer [*and many other things]
Starting as an assistant to the legendary Will Eisner on The Spirit, through his “Feiffer” syndicated strip, to his groundbreaking history, “The Great Comic Book Heroes,” to movies like “Carnal Knowledge” and “Popeye,” to his “Kill My Mother” graphic novel trilogy, to his many children’s books, JULES FEIFFER, who passed away in January at 95, was a true titan in a wide array of media. Remembering Feiffer’s life and career today is a panel of Feiffer friends and admirers , including PETER KUPER (Insectopolis), PAUL LEVITZ (Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel), MORT GERBERG (New Yorker cartoonist), N.C. CHRISTOPHER COUCH (UMass Amherst), KAREN GREEN (Columbia University Graphic Novel Librarian), and DANNY FINGEROTH (Will Eisner Studios).
Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 7 pm EST. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.
How do You Draw a Jew? Ethnic Caricature in the Early 20th Century
How do You Draw a Jew? Ethnic Caricature in the Early 20th Century
Long before the crypto-Jew, Superman, was Abie Kabibble, who appeared in Abie the Agent, the first syndicated Jewish comic strip in America, and one of the longest running ethnic comics. Published in newspapers throughout the US from 1914-1940, Abie presented a very different image of the Jew than had previously appeared on the vaudeville stage, in novels, and on phonograph records.
Marx’s slide presentation and talk focuses on anti-immigration sentiments by American nativists in the early 1900s and shares the challenges faced by Jewish graphic artists of that time who sought to present Jewish caricature in more positive ways.
Virtual Event, March 6, 2025 beginning at 6pm ET on Zoom
This event is FREE to attend but registration is required. Please register here.
The Society of Illustrators presents the SI MoCCA Arts Fest
Founded in 1901, the Society of Illustrators is America’s longest-standing nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of illustration. Located on the Upper East Side, SI’s Museum of Illustration advances our mission to promote the art and appreciation of illustration and its history and evolving nature through exhibitions and educational programs.
The SI MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event. Located at Metropolitan Pavilion in the heart of Chelsea, MoCCA Fest is NYC’s largest independent comics and cartoon festival, drawing over 9,000 attendees each year. Founded in 2001, The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) was located at 594 Broadway and offered exhibits, education programs, and an annual small-press comic convention known as MoCCA Fest, first held in 2002.
In 2012, MoCCA closed its doors and transferred its collection to SI upon condition that a gallery be created in their museum to showcase comic/cartoon art and the MoCCA Fest would continue. Since then, the SI MoCCA Arts Fest has continued to grow into one of the largest independent comic and cartoon festivals nationwide, with over 500 exhibiting artists displaying their work, award-winning honorees speaking about their careers and artistic processes and other featured artists conducting demos, lectures and panels.
Metropolitan Pavilion: 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011
March 15 – 16, 2025 * Sat: 11am-6pm * Sun: 11am – 6pm
A Serious Talk About Funny Cartoons
A Serious Talk About Funny Cartoons
This year, the Art Students League celebrates 150 years of artmaking and The New Yorker commemorates 100 years of journalism, fiction, poetry, and cartoons. New Yorker cartoons have frequently been created by artists who studied at the League. Arguably the most famous New Yorker cartoonist of our time, Roz Chast is part of a lineage of specifically women artists who studied at the League and went on to contribute to the New Yorker. In this program Chast will be joined by The New Yorker’s first female cartoon editor, Emma Allen, to discuss their careers, cartoons, and where they see the industry going.
The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery 215 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019
Wednesday, March 26 · 6 – 7pm EDT – – RSVP
Comic Arts Fest 2025
Come meet some of the world’s most celebrated graphic novelists and comic book artists across a full week-end of conversations, masterclasses, screenings, book signings, parties, and workshops featuring Barry Blitt, Aleksi Briclot, the Brizzi Brothers, Delaf, Anita Kunz, Loui, Françoise Mouly, Peter de Sève, Adrian Tomine, and more.
Friday, March 28, 2025 – Sunday, March 30, 2025
feature image by Liniers
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